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Publication Date: 2014
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Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Construction of Box Plots and Distributional Reasoning with Three Construction Tools
Okumus, Samet; Thrasher, Emily
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) (38th) and the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) (36th, Vancouver, Canada, Jul 15-20, 2014)
In this study we examined two prospective secondary mathematics teachers' constructions of box plots and their understanding of the distribution they were representing. The participants constructed box plots with paper-and-pencil, graphic calculator and TinkerPlots during clinical interviews. The study indicated that prospective mathematics teachers recognized that using technology to construct box plots provided affordances compared to creating a box plot by hand. [For the complete proceedings, see ED597799.]
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Graphs, Graphing Calculators, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Freehand Drawing, Visualization, Automation
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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